Lumi's Dreaming Thread; Dreams of Moon

[Lucilyn]

{I have no idea what the song was but it's gone now, here's a random one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKTWHXgRrkg} this one's really pretty

 

so I'm always remembering my last dream and it's usually pretty alright, detail wise. But it seems like I'm not remembering the middle-of-the-night dreams as much anymore. Sometimes that one dream at the end is like good enough to be the only dream I remember in a night, but I think the earlier ones can be important too. So I will try to remember them specifically and not just the late ones.

 

Idk if I said this already, but a while ago I asked Lumi if I should switch back with him because I've been taking a lot of our time recently. And he said, it's good that I take all the time I want now, because soon we'll be working and/or back in school, and I won't really get to do things as much. So in case you're wondering why you're not seeing the others, it's Lumi's fault ;D

 

really though I kinda miss them. I've been talking to Reisen a bit but we're not really so active when we aren't wonderlanding unless we switch every so often, so even though I might not get as much time later I still want to give them chances to do things.

Edited July 28, 2023 by Luminesce

[Lucilyn]

I woke up once and remembered I forgot my dreams, but slept long enough I 'remembered' them like four more times, so I guess that's ok? I'll keep trying. My head kinda hurts and I'm going to sleep sorta late, because it's tempting to sleep in in the morning. Uhh, what'd I say I'd do? Like, if I want to sleep in I just have to get up and walk around first, then I can go back to bed if I want. Okay that sounds good, 'cus then I either don't sleep in or hopefully have more vivid dreams

 

song that I felt like listening to (or just happened to be in my head) before going to sleep's only on bandcamp - https://last-dream.bandcamp.com/track/clouded-dreams

It's sung by Sasi, who Scarlet likes a lot. Or like, Scarlet likes Sasi's voice, because it sounds like hers, I guess eventually they just sounded the same? Speaking of, I found a picture that looks kiiiind of like Scarlet, if she ever smiled. http://i.imgur.com/F8pKnyO.png I swear there's gotta be pics out there that look like her, but we never find any. We can side-by-side compare her and Flan in our mind perfectly, it's weird we can't find any that look exactly like her. Wellanyways good night!

 

-- I guess you know what Scarlet kind-of looks like and sounds like now, that was easy. She says German sounds like a "powerful" language and likes Sasi's voice a lot. For the pic, no smile, normal length shirt, and she's a little taller than Flan (or at least feels more imposing) and not super thin like that pic

[Lucilyn]

jeeeeez I slept too long, I woke up like half an hour ago

 

so I woke up at 5:30 and my head hurt worse not less, so I took some ibuprofen and just sat there awake for like 40 minutes before I could sleep again, and I made the mistake of putting on our magical/demonic sleeping mask to help. I slept 'til 11:30 because people(&dog) were making a lot of noise and didn't fall back asleep for another like 30 minutes, and I figured you know, if I'm awake that long before falling back asleep it'll either be good dreams or not sleep. And I thought I might not even sleep after 20 minutes. But nope I woke up at 3:20PM ????

 

I mean, I did have an interesting dream, but when I woke up after it I thought it was 1:20... I swear our sleeping mask feeds on dreams to fuel its time-skipping powers. well, the dream was a completely original "game" in a dark mini-city (sectioned off like a game would be) where all of "us" (whoever us was, feels like the people around me looked like the people from Friends?) would spawn at random points in the city and 2 or 3 of us would be "vampires" that had to kill the rest without being found. I mean, it was kinda cool, just weird. Aside from the game-mechanics everything else was totally realistic, didn't look like a game

 

the heck do I do now

[Ido]

Draw me a comic about the dream where someone took Suika to court and had Seija as a lawyer. That sounds hilarious! Or at least gib some more details if you remember.

pls

 

 

Also your sleeping mask doesn't have Doremy Sweet on it by any chance? Would explain its baku powers.

[Lucilyn]

I think I said all I remember, there wasn't more to it unfortunately and the dream ended right after it was like "... but my lawyer is Seija!"

and our sleeping mask is just black and blue we don't have any toho memorabilia unfortunately :\

[Lucilyn]

in retrospect I'm really happy our mind actually made a reference to Seija at all. Like, obviously we know her and what her power is, but sometimes it feels like the brain only knows what's WRITTEN IN BIG, BOLD, CAPITAL LETTERS. 'Cus like, we never show up in dreams.. closest I've seen is just being myself sometimes. But that doesn't count. Idk, I don't think I'll ever understand why our brain dreams the things it does. It feels like it's totally disconnected from our actual life sometimes

 

anyways I guess I'm going to sleep "at the same time as yesterday" kind of. But it's later really. I'll invoke the powers of The Mask and try'n sleep late to fix our schedule for the umpteenth time

[Lucilyn]

nvm for some reason the dog had to go outside even though she should've been let out 4 hours ago but she wasn't so I'm awake and I'm just staying awake whatever it's easier

[Lucilyn]

only slept 4 hours and woke up early and yet it's midnight and I'm not that tired, only goin to sleep 'cus my eyes hurt. sounds abooout right

 

Sooo, I just skimmed through a Steve Pavlina article but most of you probably don't know who he is. He's basically, a really cool guy who's all about figuring out how to make life what you want it to be. Anyways, he's a vegan? I'm pretty sure, though he's had a lot of different diets, so obviously he talks about how great it is sometimes. But the stuff he said about having a foggy mind that you can't really tell is like that at the time is familiar to us, and he talked about not eating processed foods making a big difference, and we eat a whole lot of processed food. It's hard to find food that isn't like that around here tbh

 

anyways, idk, something about it gave me motivation to wanna try not eating all that stuff for a while. even if our "new diet" sucks and doesn't have good things in it, I feel like doing it for a little while wouldn't be so bad, and I wanna see if it makes our mind clearer. We definitely keep tabs on that sort of thing automatically, maybe a remnant of Lumi's trying to get control over his own mind a lotta years ago. He's had motivation issues since he was like 12 and just general other non-optimal stuff his mind does by default that he figured (with Steve and some others' help) he could change consciously. SO anyways, we're no strangers to uh, paying attention to how our brain works and how things like perspectives and moods and beliefs change over time. So.. yeah, thinking about trying to at least remove the obviously meh stuff from our diet for a little while to see if anything changes.

 

But, that's not really my area of expertise or whatever. Usually Tewi's the one that sorts out changes to our diet and other big stuff like that. And, I dunno, Scarlet came to mind too. A long time ago she made us/Lumi stop eating doritos or any other 'mindless' sit-in-front-of-the-TV-stuffing-your-face chips, because the one thing she cares about is our body's overall health. And I mentioned her recently, talked to her recently.. And I dunno. I feel like her and Tewi could work together to make big changes to our life that we just.. wouldn't know how to, or have the motivation to keep up and stuff. Like this all just kinda came to my mind while reading that article. I think I would like to see Scarlet active, and maybe if we were making ourselves healthier she would actually be happy, and I kind of really want to see what that's like.

 

I don't mean to like, talk about her personal stuff or whatever (it's hard to tell if she cares about anything), but I think she's kind of resigned to "the way things are". When I talked to her, it seemed like she pulled away from the idea of confronting everything she doesn't like about our life (I don't think she even realizes..realized this). She always says she wants to be left alone, but it feels just like when Lumi gives in to his motivation issues and stops caring about all the things that are wrong/he has to do because they're too stressful. That's what I felt at least, everyone else just kinda lets her be.. let's her not be. Hmm. Well like I said, this could be really good for our whole life, and her and Tewi are both good at this sorta thing (Tewi thinks things out and puts plans to action - Scarlet points out everything wrong with our lifestyle), and honestly f'real I really want to see what she's like when she's happy. I can barely imagine her smiling and I don't think she ever really has, but I think it's possible. Just like we got Tewi to smile!

 

Dunno if that stuff will be super soon or not we'll see, but I just wanted to put it out there because the idea was really strong in my mind for some reason.

 

whatisthissonglol

{broken link to the intro+"Ancient" song at the start of Haunted Dancehall}

we been listening to that and the album it's from

since before I was part of we, I put it on because I wanted an upbeat but sleep-friendly musics and I figure I'll link it too. also these albums' (alstroemeria records' "dancehalls") songs run together like one long, changing song so they don't sound as good separate. That's part of why I just linked the album lol

 

 

also reminder for those that don't know us as well, Scarlet is not Flandre, they were both split from the original "Flandre Scarlet" (lol) years and years ago. that's not a story I'm able to tell right now but basically, Scarlet's a lot more... rough, negative (but not necessarily in a bad way) and not so active in the system at all. she doesn't have her own account and has only talked on tulpa.info a few times. but yeh, especially if you know Touhou you might get them confused, just want to make sure people don't think I'm talking about Flan

Edited July 28, 2023 by Luminesce

[tulpa001]

It's probably a mistake to cut out all processed foods, unless you need to for budgeting reasons. This is an extreme simplification of the science. Some foods need to be processed to optimize their nutritional value, like potatoes and carrots. Though, you have to wonder at processes like bleaching flour, which has infiltrated the market almost entirely because people think white flour looks cleaner.

 

Achieving an optimal mix of starches, sugars, fibres, proteins, oils, and vitamins is necessary to reach an optimal feeling of high energy, which is what kills the foggy feeling. Though, even this is an oversimplification. Every food is a soup of chemicals, and lots of them are low grade depressants or stimulants, some have subtle influences on your system creating mild discomfort or comfort. Some of them contain hormones or other chemicals that interact with your endocrine system creating subtle shifts in your emotional balance.

[Lucilyn]

I didn't mean literally any food that is processed in some way, I meant like most frozen microwavable foods (like hot pockets ((actually lean pockets))) and most snack-y things really. Like chips sort of things. anyways I think that's called a raw foods diet anyway

 

our mom apparently has some nutrition-shake things that she says are the best she's ever had so those will probably replace most our more questionable meals when we try this

 

 

So after waking up after 4 hours yesterday, my "last dream" of-four-hours was pretty much just as vivid as the last dreams we usually talk about. I thiiiink we might've known this in the past. But basically it's all about dream recall and the dreams being earlier have nothing to do with their original clarity. I kinda forgot that! Means I'm slacking on recall I guess, oops, gotta try harder earlier